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EXHIBIT – Earth Day San Francisco – Earth Day’s A-Maze – 2012

Matter of Trust will be featuring an interactive bamboo maze decorated by hundreds of students’ artwork at Civic Center on Sunday, April 22, 2012. People will wander through the maze while answering fun and clever questions about the environment and recycling....

AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM – Youth Media Lab Project – 2005

Matter of Trust is the fiscal agent for Youth Media Lab (YML), an organization dedicated to providing media training to educators, youth service providers, youth and their parents. YML conducts after-school television and digital video production classes for Oakland...

FILM – Excess Access Linking Society’s Surplus With Nonprofit Needs – 1999

This 15-minute mini-documentary shows how Matter of Trust and Excess Access began and how they work. Copies are available upon request; it has been displayed on YouTube since March 2009....

CONFERENCE – Women’s Green Global Action Network – Mexico City – 2004 – 2005

Matter of Trust was the fiscal agent for Women’s Global Green Action Network (WGGAN) until they were eligible to be under the umbrella of our friends at Earth Island Institute in 2006. WGGAN cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental...

PROGRAM – Fungi + Oil Spill Hair Mat Treatability Study Renewable Resources – 2002 – 2008

Hair mats used in oil spill cleanup, like all traditional cleanup materials are incinerated or landfilled by hazmat teams. In 2002, Matter of Trust and Fungi.com joined forces to do lab research on—if fungus could breakdown mats made from human hair soaked in...

DISASTER RELIEF – Hair Booms BP Horizon Oil Spill – 2010

A huge International Natural Fiber Recycling mobilization took place to help get hair booms to the Gulf Coast Spill. We had donated to warehouses spread along Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida that received hair, fur, fleece, and nylons from donors...

EXHIBIT – Solar Power Renewable Resources – 2006 – 2014

Since 2006, Matter of Trust has been the fiscal agent for this innovative solar-power-promoting and clean energy. In partnership with David Vasquez, author of Sun Train © 2011, this is a long-term collaborative project that involves gathering several experts and...

RESEARCH – Compost + SF Oil Spill Hair Mat Bioremediation Renewable Resources P. II – 2008 – 2009

Phase 2 – Thermophilic Composting Matter of Trust is the fiscal sponsor for this bioremediation research program. Compostable waste is available all over the world. Composting can help to bioremediate wherever oil spill waste happened. After the Cosco Busan oil...

IN-KIND – Music Team SF – Manmade Surplus – 2011 – 2014

Matter of Trust has partnered with Music Team SF in San Francisco, California. This organization is also seeking gently used instruments of all kinds for the children in their after-school inner city youth orchestra program. Music Team SF is founded on the El Sistema...

IN-KIND – Orchards International – 2004

Matter of Trust is the fiscal sponsor for Orchards International Projects, run by Doug Franco (James Franco’s Father). Doug coordinates with many logistics partners to get goods such as rice and clothing to children in Kabul. Thanks to Doug and his team, we also...

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